Leicester based rockers My Awesome Compilation return to the fray with their awesome new album in May. Entitled ‘Frontiers’, it was produced by Hundred Reasons! Larry Hibbitt and is an intense and focused blast of punk rock energy.

The quartet (made up of two sets of brothers) has enjoyed some breathtaking successes in their short life. A split single with Fallout Boy (2004’s ‘As Always’), the use of their ‘Put Up A Fight’ single on the Australian Big Brother and the best selling Saints Row computer game, tours with the likes of The Darkness, A, Fallout Boy, Funeral For A Friend and Alkaline Trio (that took in Australia, Japan and Europe), and a level of critical and commercial success that many UK acts would yank their eye teeth out for!

Indeed, their debut album (2005’s ‘Actions’ video single 'put up a fight' watch above) cemented their position as serious contenders to the punk rock throne

Now in 2008, My Awesome Compilation are all about expanding their musical horizons and stamping their authority on the world.

“With the new material,” explains drummer Andy Driver, “we have gone for a darker, more intense edge. We wrote the songs like mini movie plots, some based on real experiences, (‘Accelerate’ — a car chase!), some on stories (‘Ghosts On The Underground’) and some simply plucked from our imagination (‘The Theatre Room’).”

“Lyrically, we have taken a new slant from the last album,” continues vocalist/guitarist Chris Driver, “Where we assume different characters and angles in each song to add to the dynamic. We wanted this album to be only half an hour long and hard hitting. There is an element of frustration in songs like ‘accelerate’ and ‘hostage’; it suits the content of the song and gives it an edge - anger. I guess we’re definitely a bit pissed off at the music industry and we’ve come up with darker subjects to write about (‘Red Is For Danger’ - A guy ready to kill) to release our feelings.”

And release their feeling they have. Frontiers is a deep and multi-faceted album, bursting with passion and run through with veins of melody.

“We’ve still kept FRONTIERS very much in the MAC vein and worked hard on the melodies and structures (with producer Larry Hibbitt),” says bassist Darius Cobb, “So it still has the hooks, the sweet choruses and rocking keyboard lines. But we’ve brought an edge and a purpose to the songs too.”

FRONTIERS - My Awesome Compilation in 2008!

My Awesome Compilation - Frontiers out 26th May 2008!

Kerrang! - ‘.. . you can’t argue with an enormous tune and My Awesome Compilation boast several of the buggers’
Rocksound - ‘sticky choruses, massive hooks...exceptional British rock music’
Total Guitar - ‘Actions’ should be permanently glued to your CD player and blasted out until your eardrums implode’
Big Cheese - ‘For want of a better word, ‘Awesome”
NME — “They have some brilliant songs!”

Rock3 Review of FRONTIERS

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